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"Andreas GEHRKE spent six years looking more closely at the city he was born in, capturing an aesthetic identity far removed from familiar, hackneyed viewpoints. The resulting Berlin, together with his preceding publication Brandenburg, completes a double volume of sorts that defies prevailing notions of documentary photography. In Andreas GEHRKE’s photographs, the supposed contrasts between the urban and the rural, the loud and the quiet, the hectic and the calm are no longer antithetical. Instead, through subtle allusions, they draw our attention to the structural and social changes in both locations. In this way, Berlin and Brandenburg complete and complement one another.
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Self published photo volume, 'Berlin' by Andreas GEHRKE presents a portrait of a city many of us thought we already knew. His portrayal of Germany’s much-documented capital makes the history of its urban spaces as readable as its distinctive visual qualities. In an extraordinarily intimate way, his photographs lay bare the radical upheavals, discords and new beginnings that have shaped Berlin so uniquely.